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Show FRENCH CLAIM TEN ADVANCES TO I TWENTY WITHDRAWALS OF GERMANS I Official Review of Two Month' War in France Is Given Out H in Paris Points Gained by Both Sides Between Novem- KB ber 25 and January 15 Are Recounted German Bfi Bombardment of Soupir and Victory at Sois- 9m sons Given Special Mention. BBS RESULTS OBTAINED BY THE ALLIED FORCES I From the Sea to the Lyz: Recapture of Left Bank of the Yser ffil and Other Points From Lys to the Oise: Capture of S Positions Held by Germans and General Extension of Lines From Oise to Swiss Frontier, Cap- Wjffl tures and Losses Detailed German Of- fl fensive Broken, Both East and West pSS Defensive Will Break in Turn. Fp Paris, Jan 1, 2 .57 p. m There was given out this afternoon an official of-ficial statement under the caption "The War From November 25 to January Jan-uary 15," reading as follows . Since the 15th of November, in : other words since the conclusion of , J he battle of Ypres and up to the j complete resumption of the great Ger- man offensive movement against our I left wing, the war has taken tho character char-acter of a siege. In such a warfare it generally is expected that the advantages ad-vantages obtained by one side or the other virtually offset each other But in this case it can be said that, with one exception, we alone have sained ground With this one exception, excep-tion, the Germans everywhere have gone back. Points Gained in Fighting. "The following recital of points , pained makes it possible io get an idea of the progress on either side: "By the Germans Destruction of the market, of the cathedral and d the hospital at Ypres; destruction of the town of Nieuport and of the Nieu-port Nieu-port baths, and the bombardment of Armentleres. Bethune and Arras, bombardment of Soupir and of Sois-sons; Sois-sons; recapture of Hill No 132 and of an eminence near f rouy, and a gain , of from 12"0 to 1800 yards to the i north of Solssons; advance of 300 me ; tres in the Argonne along a front of 800 metres at a point near Brook Dee Meurissons; bombardment of a Churcb at Nancy and of the hospital at Thann. Results Obtained by French. "Results obtained by the French From the sea to the Lys; recapture of all the left bank of the Yser between be-tween Qnocke and lletsas and an opening on the right bank between the sea and SL Georges. The Installation Installa-tion of a bridge head four kilometres (two miles and a half) Into this re- glon. and the Installation of a bridge head to the south of Dlxmude. Capture Cap-ture of St. Georges and of the house of the ferryman and of Korteker; the general extension of our front arounu Ypres, the success of Wybendrel and the cessation of the attacks o( the euernv's Infantry. "From the Lys to the Oise. The capture of the chateau and of the village of Vermelles and of Rutolre; the capture of numerous German trenches between Alx-RouleHe and , Carency; the partial recapture of Saint Laurent and of Blangy. near Arras, the capture of La Bolsselle, the capture of German trenches at i Lihons; the capture of Quesner-enl Santerre at the end of October and progress to thet east followed by gen- eral extension and consolidation of I our frout. "From the Oise to Rheims The capture of the Germaoi trenches at Nampoel and of the plateau of Nou-bron; Nou-bron; the taking of spur No. 132 and of the eminence of Crouy, both of which, however we lost again, the destruction of numerous pieces of German artillery; the reduction bv four-fifths of our previous percentage of our infantry loss, thanks to the greater efficiency of our artillery and the consolidation of our defensive sys- IOU1. "From Rheims to the Meuse. Advance Ad-vance of one kilometre (two-third of a mile) in the region of Prunay . advance ad-vance of more than two kilometres in the region of Perthes aud the stopping of seventeen German counter attacks, advance of nearly one kilometre in the Argonne, In the forest of La Grurie and of Bolante and the repelling re-pelling of numerous counter attacks; the extension ot our front in the neighborhood of Verdun, and the destruction de-struction of numerous German batteries bat-teries "From the Meuse to the Swiss frontier: fron-tier: Important advances in the forest for-est or Consenvoyo in the forest of Apremont; in the forest of A illy ; in the forest of Mortmare, and in the forest of Le Pretre; the checking of all the Germans attacks here: pro- gress to the northeast of Nancy, in a locality called the forest of Parroy; progress to the north and to the south of Senones and iu the entire neighborhood neigh-borhood or Ban de Sapt; capture of the Tette Dv Vlonu, which commands! Sftlnte Marie and of the Tette de i Faux; the complete check of thlrt-four thlrt-four countor attacks delivered by the: enemy: the capture of Aspach and) of Steinbach and of the heights to the east of the last mentioned place, and progress in the direction of Mun-ster, Mun-ster, Cernay and Altkircb. Snmminr n. we tret the general advances on the part of our troop- Kr w which were distinctly perceptible at fhVt certain places, as compared to twenty kIIP general withdrawals on the part oi wi the enemy, always with the exception Sgp' of the situation to the northeast of Is8?9 Soissons. wltetf "This is a comparison of the last Ilws two months To complete it, ii KHmS should be added that, first the Ger- man offensive In Poland has been re X&S strained for a month past; second, 'Elxta the Russian offensive continued In jg&j Galicia and iu the Carpathian moun-' fJj tains; third, the Turkish army in the IfevP Caucasus has been in large measure yft: annihilated, fourth, Germany has ex- t0w5 hausted her resources in officers (an K' average of twelve officers to a regi- K ment) and will not in the future be ikvk able to develop her resources in ef- fMi&L fective men. except at the expense fMN of the existing units. Fifth, the armies of the allies, on the contrary. 4: are finding it possible to further strengthen themselves to a measure- . i W.f'' able degree. M.r 'It can consequently be affirmed f thai, to obtain final victory, it ib I sufficient that France and her allies j know bd" to wait for it and at the j same time prepare for it with inex- I haustlble patience j "The German offensive has been broken; the German defensive win be broken in its turn." |